IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reaville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 621
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA091016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 621
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA091016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44567
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 40.2325000
  • Std. Longitude: -75.4972222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 126' S of pole 902, 255' E of pole 6, 1.75 mi S of Schwenksville, 2 mi NE of Trappe.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA091—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA091—Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-B4—Collegeville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, L. Seglin, R. Smith, I. Levitan, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Reaville
  • PSC - 30 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2016
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reaville
  • Classificaton Date - 4/3/1961
  • Classifier - Soil Survey Staff
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.02 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.06 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.06 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: lowland
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/3/1961 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DACA6

    DASP2

    POA

    SOLID

    Daucus carota

    Danthonia spicata

    Poa

    Solidago

    Queen Anne's lace

    poverty oatgrass

    bluegrass

    goldenrod

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    81 - 91

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithic contact

    0—30

    20—66

    30—48

    38—48

    38—48

    81—91

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    —46—

    —18—

    —10—

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    79

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    45

    1100

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    10.8

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04772
    BA—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior silt loam; weak medium platy, and moderate fine blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine distinct weak red (10R 5/3); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04773. Partial clay films on the peds.
    Bt1—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior and weak red (10R 5/3) exterior silty clay loam; medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04774. Few reddish gray (10R 5/3) coatings on the peds. Partial clay films on the peds.
    Bt2—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior and weak red (10R 5/2) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine distinct red (2.5YR 5/6) and 11 percent fine distinct reddish gray (10R 5/1); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04775. Weak red (10R 5/2) coatings.
    C1—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior and weak red (10R 5/4) exterior clay loam; weak coarse platy, and moderate fine blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 40 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04776. Few red (10R 5/4) coatings on the peds. Partial clay films on the peds.
    C2—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; very firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04777. 85% shale fragments having a few black coatings. Partial clay films.
    R—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) bedrock; fragments.